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Re: DISC -- History of the AEA
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"Wells, Julian" <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 6 Dec 2016 15:02:24 +0000
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Steven Kates writes, inter alia:


What possible difference could it make to anyone whether income distribution in some measure that is invisible to everyone without a dataset and a computer happens to be more skewed in one direction today than it was at some moment in the past?
Is he seriously suggesting that science should take no interest in anything not visible to the naked eye?

Julian Wells


Dr Julian Wells
Principal Lecturer
Economics

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